About Prof. Jo Ellis-Monaghan

Jo Ellis-Monaghan has an undergraduate degree in Studio Art and Mathematics from Bennington College, a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Vermont, and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. From 2015 to 2019, she was Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Saint Michael's College (Vermont), where she led the establishment of a statistics programme and a new interdisciplinary data science programme.  She was the Shelly Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University for Fall 2019, with a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Charles University in Prague for Spring 2020.

During 2011-2020 she was an editor-in-chief of the mathematical pedagogy journal PRIMUS, and now continues as a subject editor for undergraduate research, graduate studies, and international learning. She is recognised as a long-time proponent of active learning and has mentored roughtly 100 undergraduate research student projects. She is currently an editor of Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincare D: Combinatorics, Physics, and their Interactions, and co-author of the book Graphs on Surfaces: Twisted Duality, Polynomials, and Knots. She has been the recipient of numerous prestigious grants over the years for her research, including from NASA and the National Science Foundation.

Program

The SciSis Meet session will be moderated by Lidwien Poorthuis, managing director and senior policy advisor at the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH).